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Professor
Kent E. Portney - Quantitative Methods, Public Policy, Political Behavior

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Research & Publications

Criminal Sentencing

Papers and Articles:

"Teaching About Criminal Sentencing Decisions: The Crime and Punishment Simulations," chapter 5 in Steve Cohen, Kent Portney, Dean Rehberger, and Carolyn Thorsen, eds., Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing Company, Forthcoming, 2005.

"From Analog to Digital: The Challenge of Teaching about Criminal Sentencing," Paper. With Jerry Goldman, Steve Cohen, and Sal Soraci.

"From Analog to Digital: Teaching About Criminal Sentencing with Technology," in David G. Brown, ed. Computer Enhanced Learning: Vignettes of Best Practice from America's Most Wired Campuses. (Boston, MA: Anker Publishing Co.), June 1999, Chapter 32. Co-authored with Steve Cohen, Jerry Goldman, and Sal Soraci.

"The Role of Gender in Determining the Criminal Sanction: Results from Multimedia Experiments in Criminal Sentencing," Paper Delivered at the 1997 Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 28, Washington, D.C. Co-authored with Jerry Goldman. Awarded "Honorable Mention" in 1998 by the Law and Courts Section for the Best Paper in the 1997 Meetings.

Crime and Punishment Simulation Materials:

The Crime and Punishment web site

Short Review of the Crime and Punishment simulation

Envisioning the Future Conference - The Presentation by Kent Portney, Jerry Goldman and Steve Cohen; contains the full presentation in RealAudio format.

Related Links:

Simulation Education & Research Group (SERG)


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